| Charlie Drizzle |
07-28-2012 03:32 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by flanker7
(Post 1276475)
There's nothing wrong with the link. I've visited that site a lot as he has a lot of news on various adult expos and stuff. Maybe it doesn't like one of the ads or something, but that site doesn't try to install anything like that. I've had antivirus block completely benign sites like imgur before, so who know...
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I won't say positively that the site is the cause but if not, it's a strange coincidence. I also visited the link this morning around 4:30 AM. Norton 360 advised me of an attempt to attack my computer and closed Internet Explorer. As I tried to re-open IE I started having problems. I had a new program called 'Live Security Platinum' with a shield similar to Microsoft's pop up trying to get me to subscribe, advising me of issues, and planting itself on my taskbar. I tried to run 'msconfig' to remove the program from the Start-Up task bar. I could not run ANY .exe programs. Norton 360 was continually advising me that it was having to block attempts. When I viewed the details in the Norton history it said it was blocking Trojans called 'Gen.2' and 'zeroaccess'. I'm not computer illiterate, been working with them since the early 80's with AT&T. I was finally able to backdoor my way to Norton Support and agreed to pay $99 for the removal. I watched as they worked from 7:30 AM until just before noon, over 4 hours, going through at least a dozen reboots before finally getting rid of the Trojans. They were first found in Windows/Installer and last found in Application Data. This is the first virus issues I've had in many years. If the site was not the cause then it was a really strange coincidence. |
